#bionicle lore

[voidaspects]

Yknow in hindsight it's kinda funny how the initial mata release gave everyone really defined personality archetypes that were inspired by their elements in some way.

And then as the series progresses, every single other toa of fire ever introduced or documented was super chill and nice, and tahu was actually just an asshole.

[inthetimebeforetime]

Actually, why DID the Agori make a robot that big and just decide to fill it with its own lifeforms which were essentially just their own size. Like. Were they planning on riding in the ship one day. Why didn't they just make a Meet Dave situation

[ghost-mantis]

Being a Bionicle fan is wild. Only in Bionicle lore can you have a character who starts out as a soldier, gets bored, and fucks off to be a king, somewhere else.

Then he gets bored again and tries to conquer more land, realizes his army sucks ass, and fucks off to be a mercenary for hire working for the guy he originally lived like three doors down from.

Then he decides being a regular mercenary is boring so he becomes a magician and pretend to kill people with magic. I mean, he is kind of magic with telekinesis, but shut up, that isn’t actual magic in the Bionicle universe.

Meanwhile he’s plotting to overthrow his neighbor-boss, who knows what he’s doing but is going to let this play out because it’s probably going to be entertaining as hell. At some point his tail gets chopped off for pissing off said boss, but that’s no reason to give up on his dream of becoming the CEO of murder for hire!

And then the magician-merc runs into the Bionicle equivalent of a demon and goes “I can totally beat this unstoppable killing machine and steal its power.”

So he uses a Rhotuka, which, shut up, still isn’t magic, to steal some demon power. This goes badly and he ends up in a coma from the feedback or something. But his boss keeps his coma-corpse around just in case he wakes up so he can be entertaining again.

Does he wake up? Does he die after the universe that was taken over by a demon gets mooned to death? No one knows.

And this isn’t even a background character. This is a guy created from a fan MOC and flavor text for a contest. Utterly batshit stuff.

[frustratedasatruar]

Visorak Species History in Bionicle

We really don't know a lot about these guys, which is a shame. They are, after all, long term slaves of The Makuta whom have been subject to uncountable atrocities in the process. We know next to nothing about their language, their culture, their religious beliefs or understanding of their cosmos.

Still, I think we can come to some conclusions about their overarching timeline sequence.

Let's get the easy one out of the way in the first post.

The Visorak were created by Makuta Chirox. He was, by all accounts, very pleased with this.

So. What in Karzahni is the Zivon?

For those who don't well remember; the Zivon is a massive scorpion Kaiju which has, on multiple occasions, devoured a majority of the Visorak Horde.

It is a Kaiju so powerful, so unstoppable, so irresistible, that even in a setting as saturated with OP super-warriors as Bionicle, in the tens of thousands of years that The Zivon has existed, the only way anyone has come up with to make it stop laying waste to everything in its path is by trapping it in an alternate dimension.

If “The Zone of Darkness” ever had native life in the past, it doesn’t anymore.

In canon, we are told that the Zivon is the "natural predator" of the Visorak. Now, we learn this long before we learn about the roll of the Makuta in the ecology of the Matoran Universe, and thus the distinctly a-standard way anyone in the setting would consider the concept of a "natural predator."

But suffice to say, by normal definitions the Visorak aren't naturally occurring. So what in the mind of Tren Krom is the Zivon?

Well as many of us will remember, Chirox has a rival.

A more talented, but also genuinely and dangerously unhinged rival.

As I have proposed elsewhere before; creating an enormous, invincible Scorpion Kaiju, which neither he nor anyone else can control, is precisely Makuta Mutran's style.

From this, we may conclude that the Zivon comes second in the timeline.

[matoranhoroscope]

“So that’s where I’ve been all this time.” Jasui’s voice was filled with pride and confidence. Zatama stared back at him, unsure how to feel about the tales he had just spun. He knew Jasui had felt confined in Fahi Nui, that much he had made clear after Kytao had disappeared and tensions rose with their Turaga. Zatama had felt it was his duty to stay in this place their initial journey had landed them and so he did. Jasui left in anger. Tenakha had left to see if he could find Jasui or Kytao and Vouku left shortly after to ‘strike out on his own’, whatever he thought that meant.

“Sound’s like you really went and found yourself.” Was all he could muster in reply. He found brief eye contact with Jasui but found it hard to maintain. It had been four thousand years since they had parted ways. Jasui had changed, clearly. The anger was gone, or at least Zatama wanted to believe that to be true. But what had he done? He had held his post in Fahi Nui with Kokatoro faithfully, leading an uninteresting life and inevitably being overwhelmed by Makuta’s forces and joining a stronger Toa of Fire he had never even heard of to journey beyond what he thought was the end of his universe that he had been tasked with protecting and…

“Hey,” Jasui’s voice cut through the welling anxiety. “I know I left on bad terms. I know we had a Duty and maybe even a Destiny in Fahi Nui. I don’t really think things would have turned out differently if we had all stayed together. Six dysfunctional Toa against… all of that probably wouldn’t have made the difference in the end. But we all survived and now we get to be a part of something new!” He paused, possibly waiting to see if Zatama would re-establish eye contact. Zatama looked up as Jasui offered his fist. “I’d like to do so together, if you would.”

Zatama looked from Jasui’s fist to his eyes and again felt the urge to look away. He didn’t want to. He wasn’t ready. The fist hung there, occupying so much more space in Zatama’s head than it did in physical space. After an amount of time he felt had become awkward, he met it with his own. A lie. A false promise. He was not ready. Jasui’s very presence and demeanor made him radically uncomfortable but the part of Zatama that was stronger than the part that craved comfort wanted to follow what Jasui wanted. To appease him.

“Absolutely, brother.” The words were like ice through his vocal array and the clank of his fist against Jasui’s felt hollow.

Jasui jumped to a standing position on the catwalk where they had been catching up. “Stellar! So why don’t you show me around this New Ta Metru you’ve been helping with!” And as Zatama stood to join him, the pressure of obligation resting so heavy on his shoulders that it made the task feel nearly impossible. If Jasui had felt confined back in their old home, Zatama now felt trapped in his new one.

[scrimmydraws]

[bioniclegoodguy]

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[arribabuilds]

Sokira Lore: Part 1

Originally the Ce-Matoran assistant to Makuta Kitivoro, Sokira would be treated well by her mistress. Kitivoro would eventually begin researching the nature of Elements, creating a Virus using this research.

Upon her needing a test subject for the Virus, Sokira would freely volunteer, wanting to be of use to Kitivoro. The resulting transformation would shift Sokira from blue to pink and make her element [REDACTED]. Realizing this would put a target on Sokira with the other Makuta, Kitivoro would swear Sokira to secrecy of her new element.

Sokira would eventually transform into a Toa and, wishing to continue to protect her, Kitivoro would have her assigned to her Hagah. While serving on the team the influence of her teammates Ru and Shulk would turn Sokira from slender and scientific to a built diva.

When Teridax would ultimately take over the Brotherhood, Kitivoro would be among those who stood against him. She would survive in her defiance, but would be forced to drop everything and flee with fellow opposition, Makooti, to an unknown reality.

Kitivoro's Hagah meanwhile would have an assassination attempt made against them, though would survive thanks to Sokira's Calix. Realizing they'd be easier to track as a group, they split up and went into hiding.

Part 2